Potpuna Quotes & Sayings

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision. — Alfred North Whitehead

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! — William Shakespeare

God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin. — Rick Warren

Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other words, of sounds and pauses. Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature; and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each sentence, by successive phrases, shall first come into a kind of knot, and then, after a moment of suspended meaning, solve and clear itself.
-ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE — Robert Louis Stevenson

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. — Francis Bacon

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them. — Kenneth Eade

He was pure sex with a side of fun. — C.D. Reiss

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. — Lord Mountbatten

Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves: we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the "environment," or the "world," which have no tongues to utter a defense. — Will Durant

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out. — Dylan Smith

What's talked about is a dream,
What's envisioned is exciting,
What's planned become possible,
What's scheduled is real. — Tony Robbins